by Ann Beach | Jan 9, 2026 | Medicine
If you’ve ever tried to hold a flashlight for someone while they work under the hood of a car, you understand the importance of good lighting. The inside of a human body is a dark place, and surgeons need a lot of light to see what they are doing. Ever wonder how...
by Ann Beach | Dec 31, 2025 | Medicine
A Christmas Carol, a novella of 30,000 words, was written by Charles Dickens in six weeks in 1843. It has never gone out of print. The book’s sustained success has contributed to how Christmas is celebrated and introduced the phrases “Merry Christmas” and “Bah!...
by Ann Beach | Dec 21, 2025 | Medicine
In December, the questions parents ask in the hospital are different. Instead of “Will my child be OK?”, we pediatric hospitalists hear: “We have plane tickets to go skiing for Christmas. Will he be well by then?” “She’ll be home for Christmas, right? We’ve never been...
by Ann Beach | Dec 12, 2025 | Medicine
In the spirit of Christmas, I’ll ask- was Santa Claus a redhead? Lore and traditions link him to red-haired figures like Sinterklaas and St. Nicholas. Modern interpretations like the classic holiday movie, Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town (1970), suggest Santa...
by Ann Beach | Nov 28, 2025 | Medicine
Happy Black Friday! We seem to have divided ourselves into two groups: those who are stretched out on the couch eating leftover turkey sandwiches, and those who are up at the crack of dawn hitting the malls for the best shopping deals of the year. Either way, there...
by Ann Beach | Nov 14, 2025 | Medicine
We’ve always heard that dogs have a much better sense of smell than us humans do. After all, there are convict-sniffing bloodhounds, bomb-sniffing dogs, drug-sniffing dogs, even cancer-sniffing dogs. Scientists have trained canines to sniff out lung, breast, ovarian,...
